🚀 Zksync Claims Are Live
In today’s edition: 🔍 CVX doubles overnight, 🔮 ETH price predictions, 🚀 RPL price spike causes liquidations, ⚡ Stacks recovers, and more!
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What’s Poppin’?
by Sage Young, Dilin Massand and Sam Sriram
High Variability of Airdrop Is A Deliberate Choice: ZK Nation
The team behind ZKsync has addressed some of the community’s concerns over the ZK token airdrop ahead of claim day.
Convex Finance Token Surges 100% as veCRV’s Weekly Inflows Skyrocket
The price of Convex’s CVX token saw triple-digit percentage gains over the last 24 hours as inflows into the veCRV ecosystem hit the highest level in years.
Bitcoin’s Little Brother: Will Ethereum ETFs Also Boost Ether’s Price?
In a recent budget hearing, SEC Chair Gary Gensler told senators that the US spot ether ETF approvals should be completed by the end of the summer, so where does the market see ether’s price going before and after the launch?
Price Surge in Rocket Pool’s RPL Triggers $1.5 Million in Liquidations
As plans for an upgrade Sunday got underway, RPL jumped from $19 to as high as $35, before settling around $24.
Bitcoin L2 Stacks Back Up After 9-Hour Outage
Bitcoin layer 2 Stacks has started producing blocks again after an 9-hour outage. However, the native token for the Stacks network slid.
Daily Bits… ✍️✍️✍️
🧑⚖️ Binance expressed relief as Nigeria dropped tax charges against executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla.
💰 MicroStrategy increased its convertible note offering by 40% to $700 million, the funds will be used for acquiring more bitcoin and corporate affairs.
⚖️ Gemini agreed to pay $50 million in a settlement with the NY Attorney General for misleading investors.
🏦 El Salvador's President Bukele proposed a Bitcoin bank shortly after starting his second term.
💸 ZK token claims are now live on the zkSync Era network.
Today in Crypto Adoption...
🛠️ The largest telecommunication provider in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, announced plans to mine Bitcoin, expanding its existing node operations.
What Do You Meme?
📈 Your Market Update 📉
BTC is down 0.3%, trading at $66,174
ETH is down 0.2%, trading at $3,543
BTC dominance: 51.45%
Crypto market cap: $2.53T
*All data as of today, 05:38 am ET. Source: CoinGecko
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